.. and so a new year begins and the Daily Stoic … as a publishing event … ends.

A variation on a theme will be forthcoming .. inspired by this thought from a Daily Stoic entry on 🖇️ December 22nd

Meanwhile …

Happy New Year

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🔗 This is a big vision

Dems and Repubs have a lot more in common than we might think.

In US politics … the two prime parties are symbolized by a 🔗 Donkey and Elephant.

The curious thing is that 🔗 Thomas Nast created both the original satirical cartoons.

• Same guy.
• Drew cartoons that dinged both parties.
• Both parties adopted their own cartoon …

These days they’d sue him!

Fuck TikTok.
Fuck Russell Brand.
🔗 TikTok users including Russell Brand given special status, messages show.

Just in case you get too happy absorbing 🔗 Reasons To Be Cheerful, now you can 🔗 Cry Once a Week.

It’s all about balance.

I have saved 🔗 Layers of Time: Pace Layers of Work by Stowe Boyd to read properly later - but it triggered some other works I have been absorbing recently how the our digital worlds have been shaping our physical world for decades - and it is only accelerating.

🔗 Minister pulls brakes on cycling and walking initiatives.

Seriously? It costs THAT much?

🔗 Paris is saying ‘non’ to a US-style hellscape of supersized cars – and so should the rest of Europe.

Meanwhile ‘my man Dana’ has been banging on about the US propensity for cars of the large and heavy variety forever … not to mention the battery decisions being made - necessary apparently - because of the weight and size factor of these vehicles.

This just today for example.

While the Internet and iPhone came on faster, these were internal revolutions. They didn’t change the world around us. Mass EV adoption will.

🔗 The EV Revolution is Upon Us.

🔗 🎵 Car Drivers Torment a City with Celine Dion Songs

Protest songs are everywhere - except on TV or radio.